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Diver who rescued Thai soccer team was trapped, saved from underwater cave(scmp.com)
2 points by bgee 7y ago|0 comments
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by bgee 7y ago
> the people of Taiwan, who are more Japanese than Chinese This really sounds bizarre to me. What are you referring to here? When are/were the people of Taiwan more Japanese than Chinese?
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by bgee 7y ago
> but it's one of those topics that's socially unacceptable to discuss. What? What's the definition for "socially unacceptable" here? I have always seen news articles discussing the poor build quality in China, h
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by bgee 7y ago
> was forced to land by PLA fighters I won't necessarily say the landing was forced by PLA fighters; that would imply PLA intentionally did this (to obtain tech?) while in fact that J-8 crashed and its pilot was killed/missing.
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by bgee 8y ago
If I'm reading them correctly, those two posts are the opposite of what the parent post tried to say. Those DDoS were carried by directing traffic to GitHub while that traffic should go to Baidu. Did I miss something?
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by bgee 8y ago
> and it inserts its own headers to route away from intended(and blocked) servers and to benign local China servers(such as baidu) I was never aware that GFW would route traffic to local China servers such as Baidu's, can you kindly
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by bgee 8y ago
News from December: China court bans sales of older iPhone models in Apple-Qualcomm global battle https://www.reuters.com/article/us-qualcomm-apple/china-cour...
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by bgee 8y ago
Interesting that you brought up this treaty because I believe none of China, Russia or US has signed it... [0]: http://disarmament.un.org/treaties/t/mine_ban
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by bgee 8y ago
Can you explain more about the 誤 example you provided? When you say it's barely recognizable, do you mean simplified vs traditional? Because to me (as a native Chinese speaker) the Japanese and traditional look almost identical. I can&
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by bgee 8y ago
> Just by reading Chinese news reports and textbooks, you will find there are lots of Chinese nationalist stories about their hero technician / scientists steal western technologies. Can you kindly provide an example of this? I sear
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by bgee 8y ago
> There are rules and exceptions to those rules one must learn/memorise, but I highly doubt it's "thousands and thousands". Exactly my point: This is true in Chinese (Hanzi) as well. Edit: English-speaking individuals
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by bgee 8y ago
> but you don't spend years memorizing thousands and thousands of characters to learn English except you are memorizing thousands and thousands of spellings to learn English
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by bgee 8y ago
may or may not be on-topic: ‘Keep Talkin’ Larry’: Amazon Is Close to Tossing Oracle Software [0]. [0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-09/-keep-tal...
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by bgee 8y ago
Japanese boss dunks worker’s face in hotpot at office party [0]. [0]: https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2174669/wat...
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by bgee 8y ago
I'm really surprised that nobody has mentioned ImageNet and its use of Mechanical Turk (Amazon crowdsourcing platform) to label 14 million images [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageNet
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by bgee 8y ago
was thinking exactly this when I saw the title.
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by bgee 8y ago
I'm not defending Cultural Revolution here (no body can). However, Googling "lost tradition Cultural Revolution" didn't give me much, I found one NY Times article [0] but it doesn't talk much on the traditions that
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by bgee 8y ago
Or any link that backs "It's basic history"
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by bgee 8y ago
What I meant was maybe you can help me by pointing out something in history that was very prosperous before Cultural Revolution but died right after (if I understand "run over" correctly).
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by bgee 8y ago
> I thought a lot of traditional Chinese culture got run over by the cultural revolution Asking as a Chinese myself, can you point to some examples? edit: improve formatting
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by bgee 8y ago
Sorry, I meant EB-2 insteand of E2.
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by bgee 8y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer. E2 visa is employment-based, which means the applicant needs to be employed by the time they applies (usually through OPT or H1B). So it's not an "either-or" situation.
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Japanese mayor cuts ties between SF and Osaka over comfort women statue(sfchronicle.com)
3 points by bgee 8y ago|0 comments
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by bgee 8y ago
Most big tech companies (Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba) in China has received foreign funding when they were "startups". See VIE Structure [0] (in Chinese). [0]: https://www.zhihu.com/question/19634851/answer&#
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by bgee 8y ago
> China is 3000 years years old and still considered an emerging market. It depends on how you define "China", "3000 years years[sic] old", "still" and "emerging". China has been a "developed
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by bgee 9y ago
If we are on the subject of what crimes against humanity should prevent a country getting what kind of weapon, Asia-raping Japan is on the brink of acquiring nukes according to some comments below, do you find that disturbing? Sorry for the
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by bgee 9y ago
In the Foreign Policy article you are quoting: "Although China’s official 2012 defense budget is $106 billion, ...the Pentagon places China’s total military spending at somewhere between $120 and $180 billion." So we take the numb
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by bgee 9y ago
Can you elaborate more on why China's increasing military budget is a disturbing sign to you? China spends a mere 1.9% of its GDP in 2016 and that number is smaller than from Vietnam, Korea, India even Singapore [0]. To me China is onl
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by bgee 9y ago
> Or where they can split the gains with a corrupt official in exchange for free power... Has this happened before? It sounds bizarre and Googling gave me nothing.
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by bgee 9y ago
Peak's Wikipedia page: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%80%81%E5%90%9B%E5%B1%B1_(%...

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